On weekdays, WDBM broadcasts mainly alternative music, and features live DJs during almost every hour. At night, block programming features specialty shows such as alternative country, metal, indie, local music, and hip hop.
The Lansing City Pulse credited WDBM's Progressive Torch and Twang program for igniting and sustaining the alternative country scene in mid-Michigan.5 The program was also cited in the seminal book Modern Twang.6
Talk shows air on Sunday mornings, covering current events, student profiles and sports.
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"Call Sign History". https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=4241&Callsign=WDBM ↩
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White, Russ. "MSU's award-winning Impact Radio welcomes home an alumnus to lead WDBM into its exciting future". Retrieved October 29, 2018. http://www.wkar.org/post/msu-s-award-winning-impact-radio-welcomes-home-alumnus-lead-wdbm-its-exciting-future ↩
"City Pulse at Lansing.com". www.lansingcitypulse.com. Archived from the original on November 8, 2003. https://web.archive.org/web/20031108124649/http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/011010/music/torch.html ↩
Goodman, David (1999). Modern Twang: An Alternative Country Music Guide & Directory. ISBN 978-1891847035. 978-1891847035 ↩